[freegeek-startup] startup or intergalactic

[martin]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:53:06AM -0700, Shawn Campbell wrote:
>    I have a question. What lists currently are existing FG's supposed to
>    post to to get answers about day to day activities. There are times
>    that I have posted to start-up and heard no response, either due to
>    wrong topic of lack of moderator.
>    It was once said (numerous actually) that people inquire about becoming
>    a FG, and do no realize the hard work that it takes.
>    I feel FG's need a place to discuss major things affecting them daily
>    with a strong moderator.

what does "strong moderator" mean?
how will this lead to increased participation?
i usually think about moderation as needed when there is *too much*
information and the signal-to-noise ratio is dropping,
so a moderator checks to make sure a post is on-topic before allowing
it.

i think the lack of response to any given email has more to do with a
lack of time to post information.
none of the workers at any of the freegeeks is going to have a great
deal of time to put into the global community,
so we've tried to encourage wiki documentation as much as possible
from every side.
i know you've looked through the wiki and are looking for answers not
to be found therein,
but that's not always the case
(hmm,
  if we had a list-bot that searched for bits of people's email
  questions on the wiki and posted any corresponding results,
  this means of dissemination might feel more present
    (but then,
    i dream up bots to solve every problem.
    i should make a bot for saying "we should build a bot to do that"
    to every problem.)
).
for needing to ask for documentation that doesn't exist,
or that wouldn't make sense in a wiki format,
i think the startups list is the only thing that has been available
for that discussion if you didn't know exactly who to email with a
direct question.
this is the correct crowd to keep this in,
but a slightly mis-purposed context.

>    P.S. I do need to make a post about some testing inquires as well as
>    hardware gizmo tracking, where should I post this? We are looking to
>    take FG TN a little further by implementing a takeback program as well.
>    the state of TN is playing with the idea of a law similar to other
>    states, and we're just trying to stay ahead.

here is as good as any for now.
i'll post a reply if you do =:)

mew,
 - martin, freegeek.pdx build coordinator